The therapeutics of gynecology and obstetrics : comprising the medical, dietetic, and hygienic treatment of diseases of women.

  • Atkinson, William B. (William Biddle), 1832-1909.
Date:
1881
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Credit: The therapeutics of gynecology and obstetrics : comprising the medical, dietetic, and hygienic treatment of diseases of women. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    The present volume is the third in the Series of Modern Therapeutics, originally projected by the late Dr. Geoege H. Napheys, but which his death prevented him from completing. The work has been finished under the able supervision of Dr. Wm. B. Atkinson, whose wide experience in this branch of pro- fessional study is a sufficient guaranty that it has been well done. The aim of the Series is to present the most modern and ap- proved plans of treating the diseases considered, as set forth by the most eminent authorities and specialists in this country and Europe. The word Therapeutics is taken in its widest sense, in- cluding all efficient means of combating disease, not only phar- macal, but hygienic, dietetic, climatic and specific as well. A number of authors are quoted, and their views accurately pre- sented. When they differ, as is not infrequently the case, no magisterial attempt is made to decide which is in the right, as this difference of opinion is evidence that further observation and a very wide induction are demanded to reach a positive decision. It is better that such difference should be noted by practitioners, and that the circumstances of the case and its surroundings should be the guide to the selection of remedial measures. The u Resumes of Remedies, added to each disease, are in- tended to set forth, in alphabetical order, all the agents which have been recommended in its treatment by good, recent authori- ties. Xew methods and recent additions to the Materia Medica are given special attention, but only such admitted as appear to